Steve Jobs

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Who Said It: Kanye West, Steve Jobs, or Joffrey Baratheon?

Twice last week people the world over stopped what they were doing to quote Kanye West via Twitter. First from his interview with The New York Times; "I am the nucleus," "I just want dopeness," "It's only led me to complete awesomeness at all times" being the particular favorites. Then, after Yeezus ... More >>

Funny or Die's iSteve Beat All the Other Steve Jobs Biopics to the Screen. Maybe Because It Was Shot in Five Days

Alex Lyras Talks About Performing a Solo Show About iPhones That Sparked a Scandal for Its Author, Mike Daisey

See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews It did not take Alex Lyras long to realize that there was something uniquely different about performing Mike Daisey's solo play The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. Sitting in the Farmers Market on a recent afternoon after getting the bum's rush by a Grove se ... More >>

Why Is There So Much Indie Rock on Television? Music Supervisor Alexandra Patsavas Explains

It's hard not to notice: Indie bands seemingly soundtrack just about every sitcom, film and television commercial today. But why? Influential music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas swears it's not just about cheap labor. "It's far more of a creative decision than a monetary one," she says. "We're pick ... More >>

Dustin Thomason on His Novel 12.21, a Maya Calendar Doomsday Thriller

L.A. author Dustin Thomason wrote the bestseller The Rule of Four with Ian Caldwell. He's now going solo with 12.21, published in August, about a doctor trying to save civilization from destruction on Dec. 21, 2012, which is when the world will supposedly end, according to the Maya calendar. Publish ... More >>

Surface Tablet Crashes During Microsoft Unveiling in Hollywood

You have to love Microsoft for complicating the uncomplicated and making the computer experience a nightmare for going on two generations now. The behemoth unveiled its Surface tablet in Hollywood today and, in typical Microsuck fashion, the thing "crashed badly," according to News Photos LA. A rep ... More >>

Food Word Clouds: Michael Voltaggios's Ink. Menu

Sure, many of us often long for the days of vellum and foolscap, or maybe manual typewriters, or at the very least dense newsprint and certain glossy Condé Nast magazines, instead of the relentlessness of Twitter's Ritalin haiku and, yeah, food blogs. But sometimes technology is pretty awesome. Con ... More >>

Jason Russell, Invisible Children Co-Founder, Reportedly Detained for Public Masturbation, Vandalizing Cars in Underwear

Updated on second page with exclusive details from the San Diego PD. (Correction: Russell wasn't arrested, only detained. Headline has been changed.) Also, Invisible Children responds. According to NBC San Diego, cops caught the "storyteller and dreamer" behind the Kony 2012 campaign running around ... More >>

Condoms Still Suck, No Matter What Joycelyn Elders Thinks (She's on Trojan's Payroll)

By Dr. Paul R. Abramson & L.J. WilliamsonThe good news: Joycelyn Elders, former surgeon general of the United States, reads L.A. Weekly!The bad news: She's pissed at us. We made Dr. Elders mad because we said that condoms suck.Maybe if we hadn't said anything, no one would have noticed. Maybe inste ... More >>

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Condoms Suck

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Mr. Brainwash's 'Art Show 2011' Gets Populism Right

photo by Nanette GonzalesMr. Brainwash's "Art Show 2011"​ Update: Show has been extended, and will be open one more day, on Jan. 8. Doors open at 2 p.m. Location is 960 N. La Brea Ave. At "Art Show 2011," equivocal street artist Mr. Brainwash's 80,000 square-foot feat, Mr. Brainwash sat at a ... More >>

John Hodgman, Author of That is All , on the Trials of Being a Deranged Millionaire and Oprah's Secret Space Ark

Brantley Gutierrez, courtesy of DuttonFormer PC, John Hodgman hangs out with his favorite ferret skeleton​ Like a perfectly normal person, John Hodgman prowls the vast data tubes of the internet late at night...in his underwear....stuffing himself with kimchi. He devours factoids ranging from ... More >>

Taste Awards Nominees Announced: Anthony Bourdain, Alton Brown Steve Jobs

Taste Awards​What do Steve Jobs, Kung Fu Panda 2 and The Chew have in common? They'll each be recognized during the next annual Taste Awards. Contrary to the name, the award ceremony, held January's 3rd in Hollywood, honors not just food but style and home lifestyle programming in television, ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

dubh/Flickr​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. Los Angeles Times: dine like a Vietnamese emperor at Huong Giang; avocado wood bacon; eggplant osso buco. Ne ... More >>

Merriam-Webster, Let's Get Slizzard

Dear Merriam-Webster: We admit it: We're not hip. We didn't know until very recently that "Like A G6" isn't about a super-advanced Steve Jobs prototype computer that can also fly jet planes. As a Professional Writer, there is one thing we do know: language. Specifically, the English language. We ... More >>

Will Steve Jobs' Death Help Sell iPhone 4S?

Update: Sure enough! In the 24 hours since it's been available for pre-order, the iPhone 4S has almost doubled all previous iPhone records in that period. Apple reports that one million phones have been sold. Stock, naturally, is up as well. Lesson: Grief sells. Originally posted October 6 at 1 p.m ... More >>

CalTech Shoots to Top of 'World University' Rankings; UC Campuses Struggle to Hold on

Was Obama's shout-out to the California Institute of Technology in January the last push it needed to trample Harvard and Stanford for the No. 1 spot in (arguably) the world's most prestigious college rankings? The Times of Higher Education, a British operation, gave the Pasadena underdog top honor ... More >>

L.A.'s First Rainy Day Causes 481 Accidents, At Least 5 Deaths, General Mayhem

Aside from a couple end-of-summer showers so far this year, yesterday was the first real rainy day of 2011. And you know what a rainy day means in L.A.: People are going to freak the F out, creating a traffic tangle worse than the Internet trying to reconcile the Occupy protests with the death of 1 ... More >>

iPhone Snitch? There's an App For That, and It's Connected to L.A. County Law Enforcement

hotgirlswithiphones.comDo tell.​In the hood they say snitches get stitches. But what if they can tell all with the push of a few keys on their iPhones? You'll never know, pelon. This could change the whole game, player. Look here, my snitches, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department announced th ... More >>

The Daily Meal's 50 Most Powerful People in Food

Listmania continues (David Letterman's cultural legacy, perhaps, along with Velcro suits) but this time The Daily Meal has come up with something more compelling than a list of Top 10 Cupcakes. Theirs? America's 50 Most Powerful People in Food. It's a good list, as it would be: The Daily Meal is h ... More >>

(VIDEO) One Journalist Meets His Creepy-Real 'L.A. Noire' Video Game Counterpart

Game InformerAh, to play (and star in) video games for money​Hey -- we wanna do that! Video-game blogger Dan Ryckert, over at Game Informer, is making us feel like we definitely picked the wrong beat of this career with some detailed escapades into the realm of virtual reality. Ryckert scored ... More >>

Jon Stewart Crowned 'Most Influential' Man Of The Year

Jon Stewart influences people.​It looks like L.A. will be enjoying hosting (he'll appear via satellite) the most influential man in America Saturday -- Jon Stewart, who topped AskMen.com's "Top 29 Most Influential Men of 2010" list this week. Stewart is appearing, via satellite, at his "Rally ... More >>

(Video) Steve Jobs Wants Your Kidney: New Law Signed By Gov. Schwarzenegger Makes That Possible

We've given Steve Job's company thousands for Apple products: Does he really need our kidney?​As if he doesn't have enough in life -- Apple, lots of money, unlimited iPhones -- Steve Jobs wants your kidney. Actually, he doesn't need your kidney. But as a transplant recipient (he got a new live ... More >>

Apple Schedules Special Press Conference To Address Problems With iPhone 4

Gizmodo​Apple scheduled a press conference Friday to address a growing roar of discontent with its iPhone 4, which this week was found by Consumer Reports to have serious issues with reception. The San Jose Mercury News called the last-minute conference "unprecedented" for the normally quali ... More >>

Steve Jobs Rolls Out iPhone 4 Fix: A Free, $35 Case

Gizmodo​In a hastily organized news conference called to respond to criticism that the iPhone 4 has serious reception problems, Apple chief Steve Jobs announced a solution that sidestepped a recall that could have cost the company $1.5 billion: Free, $35 cases that seem to put virtual duct tap ... More >>

Is The New iPhone 4 An Epic FAIL? Consumer Reports Gives It A Thumbs Down

Gizmodo​Hold on to your Ray-Bans, Echo Park hipsters: The iPhone 4 has been declared a FAIL by Consumer Reports magazine (via LA Biz Observed). It wasn't AT&T's new reaming digital data plan that will certainly put most monthly iPhone bills above $100. It wasn't the fact that the new phone ... More >>

Lines For The iPhone Could Mean Leak Of New Gadget Did Apple Good

​One of Apple's arguments in its push to condemn the website Gizmodo and those journalists who helped to leak images and information about the new iPhone was that the unauthorized previews hurt sales of its existing phone model because, getting a taste of the edgy new gadget, people would wait ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Open Season

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer aalorber, who took the shot of last Sunday's crawfish boil at Dominick's with his iPhone. That would be the 3G, which apparently works a whole lot better than the one Steve Jobs tried to demo the other day. Happy crawfish season. ... More >>

Journalist's Home Searched For Information On iPhone Seller; Coveted Apple Prototype Sold For $10,000

An affidavit and search warrant unsealed at the behest of the Los Angeles Times and other news organizations revealed that authorities in Silicon Valley searched a reporter's home in order to obtain more evidence on a suspect who sold an Apple iPhone prototype to the writer. The Times reports that ... More >>

L.A. 'Street Artist' Mr. Brainwash Takes Manhattan (With a Velvet Rope, Of Course)

By Barbara Celis David Bowie, U2, Madonna, and the Rolling Stones. What could they possibly be doing together in the Meatpacking district of New York yesterday? Just hanging out at a party with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Damien Hirst and Barack Obama. Kind of. Slash, by Mr. Brainwash​ They we ... More >>

Should Hollywood Be Afraid Of The iPad?

Apple​As Apple honcho Steve Jobs introduced the company's latest game-changer, the iPad, the Los Angeles Times called it "the most anticipated tablet since Moses.'" Over-hyped or not, the possibilities for this near 10-inch touch-screen computer will probably roll over us slowly -- the same wa ... More >>

iPhone Users Plan Protest To Choke AT&T Network Today

​If your iPhone is a little slow you can probably blame fellow users are staging a protest Friday to send a message to AT&T that they're not going to be happy if the company start charging usage fees for those who use the internet and email functions of their devices more. The protest was act ... More >>

Camp Freddy's Billy Morrison Highlights His 10 Most Important Cultural Events of the 1970s

Billy Morrison​Editor's Note: For Angelenos, guitarist Billy Morrison is perhaps best known for his work with all-star cover band Camp Freddy, which also features core members Dave Navarro (guitar), Matt Sorum (drums), Donovan Leitch, Jr. (vocals), Chris Chaney (bass). Indie 103.1 fans no doub ... More >>

Techcrunch Crunchup: L.A. Does it in Realtime

SoCal native and the "Golden God of Tech" Michael Arrington was born and raised in Huntington Beach so it came as no surprise that the L.A. contingent was out in full-force at this year's Techcrunch Crunchup Real Time Conference and summer party at the August Capital offices in Palo Alto. There for ... More >>

The Woz on Dancing with the Stars

Oh man. Steve Wozniak is going to be on Dancing With the Stars. I don't watch the show, but they've now found the one star that would make me start. Wozniak co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Jobs. I wonder if they tried to get Jobs to dance as well. Or Bill Gates. That would have been the ultim ... More >>

Last Night: Tech Industry Geeks Barrage Knitting Factory for Digg.com Meetup L.A.

Hundreds of Diggnation fans, Diggers and general tech industry geeks barraged the Knitting Factory last night for the Digg.com Meetup L.A. -- the crowd on Hollywood Boulevard started lining up at 8 a.m. with attendees setting up folding chairs, the general vibe reminiscent of a Star Wars or LOR prem ... More >>

The Future of Reading for Non-Readers: Book Expo America 2008

Book Expo America is supposed to be "for the trade" only. So says the program. That is a move in the wrong direction. Book events, especially the massive spectacle ones, should be inclusionary rather than exclusionary. How else are we going to regain the sense of reading as a fun, sexy thing to do ... More >>

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